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The tussle for power between Disraeli and Gladstone, the two great politicians of the age, saw the appearance of modern two-party politics in a recognisable form, and their regular jousts at the dispatch box continued until Disraeli’s defeat in 1880. By then, parliamentary government was at the height of its prestige.
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The Victorian age was the first in which childhood was...
- Commerce
AS SAFE AS THE BANK OF ENGLAND. In an age when sustained...
- Victorians
New developments in the study and rearing of plants were...
- Religion
The government had begun to remedy this. In 1818 it had...
- Food and Health
BEER AND TEMPERANCE. Beer was by far the most popular drink...
- War
Victorian Britain was both the greatest power in the world...
- Child Labour in The Lake District
A FATAL ERRAND. On 29 November 1849 Kit Cloudesdale, a...
- The Dilessi Massacre and a Gothic Revival Masterpiece
The Studley Royal estate was then owned by George Robinson,...
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29 mar 2011 · His Liberal party's split on home rule for Ireland in 1886 began the long process of marginalisation of the political party which dominated much of the queen's reign.
23 maj 2024 · “By all the processes being carried on under a man’s own roof,” the labor reformer Peter Gaskell wrote in 1842, “he retained his individual respectability.” When the factory system emerged, workers became bound to the clock.
3 dni temu · After the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act, local government, if developing unevenly, was a major part of the new machinery of government. There was a great flowering of civic administration and civic pride during the early and mid-Victorian period in Britain.
21 sty 2022 · The first full decade of the Victorian Era, the 1840s, saw a wave of changes that would shake the United Kingdom and the British Empire forever. From new governments at home to new territory abroad, Britain as we know it was fundamentally altered every year.
2 maj 2023 · The British Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) brought innovative mechanisation and deep social change. The process saw the invention of steam-powered machines, which were used in factories in ever-growing urban centres.
26 kwi 2023 · Only the arrival of the 1842 Mines Act brought the prohibition of the employment of women, girls, and boys under 10 years of age from working underground. In the short term, many women lost their jobs, and families with only daughters suffered severe financial hardship as a result of these reforms.
